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Classification: Painting
Medium: Oil
Support: On canvas
Year: 1931
1931.13
Composition
1931
Oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 24 in. (91.7 x 61 cm)
Signed lower center: J. Torres-GARCIA; dated lower right: 31
Museum of Modern Art, New York (Gift of Larry Aldrich in 1956) (281.1956)
Provenance
Galerie Pierre Loeb, Paris, France
Larry Aldrich
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Exhibitions
1933 Salón de Otoño
Salón de Otoño, Madrid, Salón de Arte Constructivo, October 1933.
1956 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions, July 1–December 31, 1956.
1957 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent American Acquisitions, March 14–April 30, 1957.
1961–62 Stedelijk Museum
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1961–January 1962, no. 5. Traveled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany, March 2–April 1, 1962.
1971–72 The University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin, The University Art Museum, Texas, Joaquín Torres-García, December 1, 1971–January 16, 1972, no. 15.
2000 The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Making Choices:The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, June 2000.
2015–2016 Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern, October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016, ill., p. 137. Traveled to: Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 16–September 11, 2016; Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain, October 10, 2016–January 29, 2017.
Published References
de Torre 1932
de Torre, Guillermo. "La pintura de Torres-Garcia." Arte: Revista de la Sociedad de Artistas Ibéricos (Madrid) año 1, no. 1 (1932), ill. p. 47.
Luz 1933c
"Una Conferencia en el Salón de Otoño." Luz (Madrid), October 18, 1933, ill. p. 9.
Museum of Modern Art Bulletin 1957
"Painting and sculpture acquisitions." Museum of Modern Art Bulletin vol. XXIV, no. 4 (Summer 1957), ill.
Romero 1960
Romero, Danilo. "Notas sobre el arte americano." Idea, Artes y Letras (Lima) (April-June 1960), ill.
Duncan 1970
Ducan, Barbara. "Joaquín Torres García." Americas Vol. 22, No. 11-12 (November-December 1970), ill. p. 15.
The University of Texas at Austin 1974
The University of Texas at Austin, Archer M. Huntington Galleries. Joaquín Torres-García 1874-1949: Chronology and Catalogue of the Family Collection. Austin: 1974. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 15.
Gradowczyk 1985
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Joaquín Torres-García, Artistas de América. Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985, ill. p. 42, no. 25.
Gradowczyk 2007
Gradowczyk, Mario H. Torres-García: Utopía y Transgresión. Montevideo: Fundación Torres-García, 2007. Exhibition catalogue, ill. p. 201, no. 6.33.
Viveros-Fauné 2016
Viveros-Fauné, Christian. "True South." Village Voice, January 6-January 12, 2016, ill.
Di Benedetto 2022
Di Benedetto, Antonio. The Silentiary. New York: New York Review of Books, 2022, ill. on front cover and thumbnail ill. on back cover, as Composition.
Record last updated July 12, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: de Torres, Cecilia, Susanna V. Temkin, Madeline Murphy Turner, and Victoria L. Fedrigotti. "Composition, 1931 (1931.13)." In Joaquín Torres-García Catalogue Raisonné. www.torresgarcia.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1036 (accessed on July 26, 2025).